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Perú Archaeological Site Descriptions:

A comprehensive listing of ’s archaeological complexes and monuments, including detailed descriptions, locations, entry fees, site museums and visitor restrictions.

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Much has changed since the original publication of this list of Peruvian ancient sites in 2009, with dozens of major archaeological discoveries.

For up-to-date information, check our Peruvian Travel Trends blog.

The purpose of publishing this map and description list was to help inform you about possible archaeological destinations to visit during your vacation to Peru.

Many are on well known tourist circuits and are easily accessible.

These include the sites along Peru’s northern coast Moche circuit, like Túcume, and Huaca Cao, , and the Temples of the Sun and Moon.

There are also the sites along the Nor Amazónico circuit, , , the Sarcophagi of Karajia and Lagoon of the Condors.

Many others are common stops for a vacation: Sacsayhuaman Pisaq, , , Ollantaytambo, and the half dozen Inca sites accessible only via the Inca Trail en route to .

Others are lesser known, farther off the beaten path and it’s these destinations we hope you will become interested in and enquire about visiting to forge new routes.

Our goal is to broaden and develop sustainable eco-tourism throughout Peru.

If there are any archaeological sites missing from our list, or if you see an error that needs correcting, please let us know via our blog’s comment section.

Or write to us directly at: [email protected]. Perú Archaeological Sites Index

Lima Amazonas 8. "Cave of the 11. San José de Moro 1. 1. Guitarist" (Cueva de 2. 2. Lagoon of the Guitarrero) 3. Condors 9. Sanctuary of Punkuri 1. 4. 3. Revash 10. Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Complex 5. Sacred of 4. Karajia Sarcophagi Complex 2. 6. 5. Yalape 11. Mojeque y Pampa de Ceremonial Center 7. Pucllana Historic Park 6. Macro Archaeological 3. Ransom Room 8. Complex 12. La Galgada (Cuarto del Rescate) 9. Huaca Garagay 7. La Congona Archaeological Site 4. Layzón 10. Pariacaca Trail (from 8. Ollape Archaeological 13. Citadel of Pañamarca 5. Necropolis of Pachacamac) Complex Combayo 11. Yaros 9. Olan 6. Windows of Otuzco Archaeological Complex 10. Chipuric - 1. Temple of the Jaguar 12. Rupac-Marca Cullpi Mausoleum of Luya 2. Aypate Lambayeque 11. Pitaya Petroglyphs Archaeological Zone 1. of Túcume 12. 3. Illescas 2. Sipán 1. Huaytara 13. Archaeological Complex 3. Sicán (Batán Grande) Archaeological Complex 14. Rock Paintings of 4. Samanga Petroglyphs - Pómac 2. Incahuasi Yamon 5. Vicus Archaeological 4. Multicolored Murals Archaeological Complex Area of Ucupe 3. Uchkus Icañam Cusco 6. Narihualá Fort 5. Huaca Chotuna Archaeological Complex 1. The Fortress of 4. Archaeological Saqsaywaman Remains of the Allpas 2. Qenqo 1. Baúl Peak 1. Petroglyphs of Dead from Acobamba 3. Puka Pukará Archaeological Site Bull Ravine (Toro 4. Tambomachay Water Muerto) Temple Ica 2. Sumbay Caves 1. 5. Ollantaytambo 1. The Sentry or "Huaca" 3. Ravine of the Cow, or Archaeological Site 6. Chinchero of the Sun Port Inca 2. Archaeological Complex 2. Archaeological Archaeological Complex 7. Pisaq Archaeological Remains of San Martín 3. Park Colorado 1. Citadel of Gran 4. Mauka Llajta 8. 3. of the Pajatén 5. Uyo 9. Archaeological Huayuri 2. Panguana Petroglyphs 6. Pucará Archaeological Site 4. Lines and 3. Polish Petroyglyphs Complex 10. and Bello Horizonte 7. 11. Machu Picchu 5. Ceremonial 4. Chazuta Archaeological Site Historical Sanctuary Center Archaeological Site 12. Choquequirao 6. Necropolis of 13. Tipon Chauchilla Apurímac 1. Wari Archaeological Archaeological Complex 7. Los Paredones - Inca 1. Saywite Monolith Complex 14. Qorikancha Administrative Center 2. Sondor 2. Cave of Piquimachay 15. Raqchi 8. Cantalloc Aqueduct Archaeological Complex or Archaeological Complex 3. Curamba 3. Vilcashuamán 16. Hatun Rumiyoc Archaeological Complex Archaeological Complex (Stone of 12 Angles) 1. of Causuri 4. Pumacocha or 17. Tarawasi Huánuco Intihuatana 18. K'anamarca La Libertad 1. or the Temple Archaeological Complex 1. Chan Chan of the Crossed Hands 5. Caniche Ancash Archaeological Complex 2. Tantamayo Archaeological Complex 1. Willcahuain and Ichic 2. Temples of the Sun Archaeological Complex Willcahuain and Moon 3. Garu Archaeological Pasco Archaeological Complex 3. El Brujo Complex 1. Goñicutac 2. Waullac Archaeological Complex 4. Huanuco Pampa Archaeological Complex 3. Las Aldas 4. Markahuamachuco 5. Cave of Lauricocha 2. Chumpinvilcas Archaeological Site Archaeological Complex Archaeological Complex 4. 5. Pakatnamu Complex Junín 3. Ichugan 6. La Esmeralda 1. Archaeological Complex 5. Warriors of Sechin 7. Wiracochapampa 2. Sanctuary of Wari 4. Gorish Archaeological Archaeological Complex 8. Temple of the Dragon Willka or Warivilca Site 6. Tumshukaico or Rainbow (Huaca El 3. Terraces of Archaeological Dragón or Arco Iris)" Tumbes Monument 9. Chepén Mountain and 1. Cabeza de Vaca 7. Pashas Archaeological Crucis Path (Via Crucis) (Head of the Cow) Site 10. Pirca Pirca Archaeological Zone Archaeological Complex Archaeological Site Details Region Location Access Description Site Entrance Opening Museum & Other Fee Hours Services

Lima Province Cañete Distance Time An Inca archaeological site, its construction is associated with the campaign fought against the Lord of the 15 km from District Lunahuaná 20 Minutes Guarcos (1450AD), in the province now known as Lunahuaná District Cañete. The site was constructed to be the General's quarters for Túpac Yupanqu and was built of stone. You A number of operators can recognize three sectors or neighborhoods: Barrio in Lunahuana offer the Adult Ticket Incaico (for army officials), Barrio Religioso (possibly 1. Incahuasi site as part of their S/.1.00 inhabited by troops) and the Palace of the Inca, a 60 kilometers from circuit, but there are Locality or km 29.5 via Cañete that forms a trapezoidal shape at its highest San Vincente de 45 Minutes no onsite services Reference and Lunahuaná point. The site is related to the archaeological sites at Cañete Cerro Azul, Huacones and Cerro del Oro (from the Guarco culture).

Province Lima Distance Time Pachacamac is considered one of the most important pre- Children & District Lurín Hispanic ceremonial centers on the Central Coast of School On site museum is Peru. For at least two thousand years it was occupied by Students part of the National Andean cultures like the Lima, Wari, Ichma and Inca. It S/.1.00, Monday - Friday: System of Museums. is comprised of monumental pyramids (The Temple of 2. Pachacamac 31 kilometers from Professors, Locality or Old Panamericana 45 minutes 9:00 - 17:00 Also includes guides, the Son, the Painted Temple and the Temple of the Lima Students & Reference South km 31.5 cafeteria, guards and Mamaconas, among others) and occupies an area of Retirees bathrooms. approximately 492 hectares. S/.2.00, Adults S/.5.50

Province Lima Distance Time Built in the Inca period (15th-) and Children & constructed on a rectangular, base. The site is District Ate School famous for the discovery of an urn in 1956 that contained Students Tuesday - Onsite museum, 21 Inca “khipu”, a grouping of strands tied with knots to S/.1.00, Thursday 8:30am - guides, cafeteria, signify numbers or words. The khipu have since been 3. Puruchuco 6 kilometers from Professors, 4:00pm, Saturdays children's room, 20 minutes studied to determine whether they were simply the Inca’s Locality or Km 4.5 Carretera Lima Students & & Sundays 9:00am temporary exhibit accounting system, or were an as-yet untranslated form Reference Central, Ate Retirees - 4:00pm room, bathrooms of writing. S/.2.00, Adults S/.5.50

Province Barranca Distance Time City built on the frontier of the Kingdom of , whose District Pativilca capital was Chan Chan. It is believed to have been an important site of worship, and takes its name from the town of Paramonga, although no original name for the Children & site can be found in the Muchik language, which was Km 209 of School spoken on the north coast of Peru before the Spanish 20 minutes (from Onsite museum, 4. Paramonga Panamericana Students 9:00 - 17:00 conquest. Usually called the "Fort," referring to one of its the city of bathrooms Locality or Over the Forteleza Norte, then S/.1.00, Adults principal and best-preserved at the top of the Paramonga) Reference River another 50 meters S/.3.00 hill, a pyramid that has 4 levels, each of enormous proportions, constructed from adobe and resembling European medieval castle.

Province Barranca Distance Time Caral represents the oldest in the , which developed around the same time as Mesopotamia, District Supe Egypt, India and . It's a city that represents the pre- ceramic period. Covering an area of approximately 66 School Souvenir store, snack hectares (it is believed that at one time the city measured Students & bar, reception and rest 23 kilometers from around 3,000ha), the constructions are of various sizes the City of Caral Retirees Monday to Sunday area, bathrooms and 1 hour from Caral and serve several functions. Archaeologists have 5. Sacred City of Caral Via Supe-Ámbar turnoff, Turn at Km S/.1.00, 9:00 -17:00, Last cooking area. On turnoff, 2 and a half identified 6 pyramids, and a series of middle-sized and Locality or until you reach the 184 of the Students group in at 16:00 weekends local people hours from Lima small buildings, including temples, Reference pedestrians S/.3.60, Adults sell food typical of the Panamericana residential areas, public plazas, amphitheatres, entrance S/.11.20 area. Norte storehouses, a circular coliseum, tombs, altars and streets.

Province Lima Distance Time When the Inca reached the coast in the 15th Century District San Isidro they found that the Lima valley was populated by various tribes, probably of Serrano origin. One of these was Children & named the "Hualla". The Huallas used this place to bury School their dead. The evidence in the tombs of Huaca Students Huallamarca reveals a lapse in time that starts from the S/.1.00, Monday to Sunday On site museum & 6. Huaca Huallamarca Near the Center of 7th Century to the advent of the Inca in the 15th Century. 20 minutes Students & 9:00 - 17:00 bathrooms Locality or Nicolas de Rivera Lima In the 4th Century this ceremonial center was Retirees Reference 201 abandoned, probably because that's when the S/.3.00, Adults construction of the started in the Lima S/.5.00 suburb of Miraflores.

Province Lima Distance Time Belongs to the cultural development of the District Miraflores (200-700AD). Represents the power and political dominance exercised by a group of priests who at the Children, height of their dominion controlled the Chancay, Chillón, School Rimac and Lurín valleys. The archaeological center of On site museum. The Huaca Pucllana is associated with other sites in Lima,

Lima Students & Wednesday to site is administered by 7. Pucllana Historic Park 5 kilometers from Seniors S/.1.00, Monday 9:00 - like Maranga (in San Miguel) Cajamarquilla (Ate-Vitarte) Locality or 20 minutes the Municipality of General Borgoño, the center of Lima Students 16:30 and Pachacámac (Lurín). Its construction is associated Miraflores Reference Cuadra 8 S/.3.00, Adults with access to and control over water, and the system of S/.7.00 canals that mark the left side of the Lima valley.

Province Lima Distance Time Archaeological site built in the end of the intermediate District Lurigancho era, around 600AD, during the period when the Lima Adults S/.3.00, The site is threatened culture dominated the valley. Cajmarquilla is considered Students & by encroaching the second largest mud brick city on the central coast, Retirees construction, a after Pachacámac, as it covers 167 hectares. Its 8. Cajamarquilla On the edge of the 15 kilometers from 9:00 - 17:00 Locality or 30 minutes S/.2:00, School retaining wall is importance as a political urban center grew over the Huaycoloro or Lima Reference Students needed to delineate a centuries. From 1100AD (the Late Intermediate period) it Jicamarca gorge S/.1.00 clear boundary. started to acquire the configuration that it retains to this day.

Province Lima Distance Time The most important Chavin monument that's been found San Martin de in the Lima region is the Ceremonial Center of Garagay. District Porres This magnificent temple is perhaps one of the oldest examples of the Chavinoide movement in the region, The site is threatened dated around 1200AD, and could be contemporaneous Semi-restricted by encroaching with the old Temple of Chavin in Huantar. The combined Two blocks from access, requires construction, a 9. Huaca Garagay and urban planning is the work of several the Mayta Capac 2 minutes prior permission retaining wall is Locality or On the north side of generations. In the building of the central pyramid it is Ecological Center from the INC needed to delineate a Reference the Rimac River possible to see the successive additions and clear boundary. replacements that are typical of the construction of such large monuments.

Province Yauyos Distance Time Part of the Route of the Gods (from Pachacamac to District Tanta Xauxa, at the base of the snow-capped peak Pariacaca, named after the pre-Inca god of water), it is seen not only as a road, but also as a ceremonial path that pilgrims From San Juan de could follow to the Altar to Pariacaca, considered by Tantarache in the some historians to be one of the most important burial At the tributary of Mala River basin, sites in Peru. Upon arrival you can observe the open-air Lake Mullococha, to Ocscha the path altars and the Pariacaca ridge, part of a mountain range cross and begin climbs to Tambo that's the starting point for the Cañete and Mantaro the ascent toward 10. Pariacaca Trail (from Real, then through Rivers. When the Inca conquered the coast and the Lake Escalera. Free entry No services Pachacamac) Macia, to reach the Central Highlands of modern Peru, there were two Locality or At the source of the The trek from staircase of important ceremonial centers dedicated to Pachacamac Reference Cañete River Tambo Real to Cachicancha, and Pariacaca. There, ancient peoples predating the Inca Escalera takes continuing along participated in a cult of the "Apus," deity spirits that approx. eight the Pumaruri embodied the summits of mountains (an ancient religious hours. ravine to the concept that's not unique to the ). Tiopata Hill.

Province Huaral Distance Time In the jurisdiction of the old town of San Juan de District Lampian Lampián, the Yaros were discovered on a hill about four kilometers long. The site starts with semicircular platforms cut from polygonal stones. Groups of “chullpas” (stone burial towers) are built on distinctive rocky crests. 11. Yaros Archaeological Around them are stone structures in the shape of rings Complex Locality or Near the Mataca and rectangles; the most notable is the palace of the Reference Bridge, near Acos amphitheater. It's constructed in an oval shape, with eight trapezoidal porticos, all well preserved.

Province Huaral Distance Time This fort is also known as the "Machu Picchu of Lima." The citadel consists of 51 buildings, of which 28 still have 10 kilometers from Four hours on foot their roofs intact. Some of them measure up to 10 meters District Atavillos Bajo the town of from Huallopampa high. Together with the archaeological complexes of Huallopampa. to the complex Chiprac, Canta Marca and Añay, Rupac-Marca Cullpi belongs to the Atahuallos culture (900AD-1460AD). The main building in this citadel is the castle of Marca Cullpi. 12. Rupac-Marca Cullpi Free entry No services The structures in this citadel are rectanglar with triple Near the town of 55 kilometers from Two hours drive terraced cornices. When archaeologists discovered the Locality or Salvador de Huaral to from Huaral to "chullpas" or stone burial towers they were in good Reference Pampas Huallopampa Huallopampa condition. As at Machu Picchu, the plaza has windows cut in trapezoidal shapes, and the tunnels and tombs are admirably preserved. Huancavelica Province Huaytara Distance Time This complex consists of a Catholic church and Inca District Huaytara Palace, the Baths of the Incas, where a series of channels are used to collect thermally heated water. The Inca Palace consists of a floor in the form of a trapezoid Monday to Adults S/2.00 with walls 1.65 meters thick and 3.70 meters high. You 1. Huaytara Archaeological Saturday 9:00 - On site museum, 200 meters from Students S/1.00 can appreciate many characteristics of Complex Locality or 5 minutes on foot 13:00 and 14:30 - bathrooms and guides Castrovirreyna Children S/.0.50 in their construction: recesses, niches, trapezoidal Reference 18:00 doorways, etc. On top of these walls colonial authorities built the Church of San John of Huaytará.

Province Huaytara Distance Time In the city of Incahausi, on a broad , lies the District Huaytara Palace of the Inca, the most important monument in the Huancavelica region. It's built of polished stones, trapezoidal walls and doorways with beautifully flat and Adults S/.3.00 Monday to Guide service. The flush stonework, and niches on both interior and exterior 2. Incahuasi Archaeological 20 kilometers from Students Saturday 9:00 - site museum and food walls. This site presents diverse living areas, plazas, Complex Locality or the city of 30 minutes S/.1.00 Seniors 13:00 and 14:30 - and drink services are warehouses and channels. There are also separate Reference Huaytará S/.0.50 18:00 in Huaytará spaces that served as astronomical , utilizing solar calendars and sundials.

Province Huancavelica Distance Time The oldest buildings at Uchkus Icañam date from the arrival of the first shepherds and farmers (1200 BC to 25 kilometers from 5 hours on foot, 3 100 AD), and the complex appears to have been used as District Yauli the city of and a half hours by an administrative center for the Chavin people of Atalla. Huancavelica bus, 3 hours by car Adults S/2.00 3. Uchkus Icañam Open from May to Camping facilities and During the reign of the Anccaras culture (1200 to 1440 Students S/1.00 Huancavelica Archaeological Complex October horse riding available AD) this place rose to great importance due to its control Children S/.0.50 Ichu River basin, over the population movements in the river basin from Locality or the peak of Uchkus Acoria to Lachocc. In the 15th century, it was occupied Reference Alto by the Inca and used as a religious complex.

Province Acobamba Distance Time Located in the community of Allpas, the complex has four distinct zones: the Ceremonial Center or "Atun Rumi," 7.5 kilometers 1 hour 30 minutes 4. Archaeological Remains of District Acobamba Open in the the hundred windows or niches, the surrounding houses, from Acobamba on foot Free entry the Allpas from Acobamba morning and the circular platforms of Ichu Wasi and Inkacucho. Locality or Community of 45 minutes by bus Reference Allpas Puno Distance Time In the Inca Uyo means "dwelling or place of the Inca." The site is well recognized for its Inca 25 minutes by bus 18 kilometers from building style and its use of stone materials. District Chucuito and 15 minutes by the city of Puno Archaeological excavations took place at least twice in car 1. Inca Uyo Archaeological the 20th century, and from these it was learned that the S/.1.00 Open all day Guards Site ruins formed part of a major collection of ceremonial 300 meters from buildings. By analogy from other Inca sites in the Andes, Locality or the main square of 5 minutes walk archaeologists surmise that it was a destination for Reference Chucuito political and religious gatherings.

Province Puno Distance Time One of the most important funeral centers in the Peruvian District Pichacani highlands, Cutimbo was found to have ties to the Adults S/.3.00 dominions of the and Collas. The oldest 22 kilometers University archaeological evidence consists of rock paintings 8000 along the Puno A small on site 2. Cutimbo Archaeological Students Monday to Sunday years old. The site also contains structures dating from Moquegua 20 minutes by car, museum, parking and Complex S/.1.00 School 8:00 - 17:00 the Late Intermediate period (1100 - 1450AD) and the Locality or highway, take the 25 minutes by bus bathrooms Students (1450 - 1532AD). The site includes a group Reference Cerro Cutimbo S/.0.50 of "chullpas" or stone burial towers similar to those found turnoff at Sillustani.

Province Puno Distance Time Sillustani is an extensive network of "chullpas" or stone burial towers located on a plateau overlooking Lake District Atuncolla Umayo. The tombs date from the 12th to the 14th Adults S/5.50 centuries, belonging to the Kolla culture (1200-1450 AD) University that developed in the area to the north of the lake. The Students Monday to Sunday towers range from rustic pre-Inca to extremely 3. Sillustani 34 kilometers 35 minutes by bus S/.1.00 School 8:00 - 17:00 sophisticated stone mausoleums up to 12 meters high, Locality or north of Puno Students featuring relief carvings of lizards and elegant stonework. Reference S/.0.50 The tombs interred entire family groups and were reserved for the and priest class.

Province Sandia Distance Time A conglomeration of stone structures made from slate, District Sandia Mauka Llajta was possibly used as living area due to the great quantity of circular, semi-circular and quadrangular ruins. At this site there's evidence of 5 stone funeral 279 kilometers towers or "chullpas." Some have two stories and all from the city of

Puno 4. Mauka Llajta Chi’apata Peak, the 10 hours 20 Free entry contain the remains of human skeletons. There's no Locality or Puno, access is community of minutes evidence in the interior or exterior of ceramic fragments, Reference through the Apabuco but these funeral towers contain several fragments of C’atasuyo zone mud brick, painted orange.

Province Yunguyo Distance Time Fragments of from the Chiripa, Tiahuanaco, District Unicachi Ollaraya Collao and Inca culture have been found at Inti Uyo. The site was discovered in 1968 from information provided by a school student. Excavations followed, but the site has 5. Inti Uyo lost some of its ancient artworks as they were destroyed Locality or in renovations for the Festival of Pachacutec. The site is Reference now used to celebrate the Aymara New Year on the 21st of June.

Province Lampa Distance Time This site is believed to have been an important 1 kilometer from ceremonial center for the Pucará culture. Construction Adults S/5.50 District Pucará the main square of 2 minutes started in 80 BC but the complex reached its peak University Pucará between 250 BC and 380 AD. Two distinct areas stand 6. Pucará Archaeological Students Monday to Sunday On site museum, out: a ceremonial sector and an urban sector. The first is Complex S/.1.00 School 9:00 - 16:00 bathrooms and guides the most important. It's composed of 9 pyramids, each of Locality or 67 kilometers from Students 40 minutes by car a different shape and size, dispersed over an area of Reference the city of S/.0.50 approximately 4.2km2. The most prominent is the Pyramid of Kalasaya. Province Puno Distance Time Molloko is located in the village of Caritamaya, in the 37.5 kilometers sector known as Mayca Amaya. In a place called Kenko, 35 minutes from District Acora from the city of near the ravine of a mountain, you can find 4 "chullpas" Puno 7. Molloko Archaeological Puno or burial towers: two circular and two quadrangular. They Free entry Site belong to the culture and date from 1300 AD Locality or 4 kilometers from 10 minutes from (Late Intermediate period). It's believed the site was used Reference Acora Acora by the and also served as a retreat for Inca leaders. Ayacucho Province Huamanga Distance Time This archaeological complex belongs to the 22 kilometers that flourished between the 6th and 11th centuries AD. District Quinua north of the city of 30 minutes by car Adults S/.3.00 It's one of the largest urban centers of ancient Peru, Ayacucho University covering an area of approximately 2200 hectares. The 1. Wari Archaeological Students Monday to Sunday On site museum, main buildings are found in a tight nucleus in the urban Complex S/.1.00 School 8:30 - 17:00 bathrooms and guides center. The site is linked to the Middle period Locality or Students and the first colonial references date back to the Reference S/.0.50 chronicles of Pedro Cieza de León in 1553. The site lies 2750 meters above sea level.

Province Huamanga Distance Time The cave has been dated to 20,000 years before Christ District Pacaycasa and samples reveal two ancient phases of occupation: the Pacaicasa and Ayacucho. The deepest level (corresponding to the first Pacaicasa phase) contains 2. Cave of Piquimachay or 25 kilometers from Free entry fossil remains of giant sloths and horses, and Pikimachay the city of 30 minutes by car Locality or rudimentary tools of stone and bone. These remains Huamanga Reference demonstrate that during this phase nomadic hunter- gatherers inhabited the cave.

Province Vilcashuamán Distance Time An Inca city dating from the 15th Century, considered District Vischongo one of the most important administrative centers in Tahuantinsuyo. Vilcashuamán, which translates as "Sacred Hawk" was built at a strategic point on the Qapac Ñan road (a royal Inca trail), and reveals a fine 3. Vilcashuamán 118 kilometers Paid architectural design and well preserved remains. The Archaeological Complex Locality or south of the city of 3 hours by car integrated architectural elements that make up the site Reference Ayacucho are: the Trapezoidal Plaza, the Ceremonial Pyramid or Ushno and the Temple of the Sun.

Province Vilcashuamán Distance Time These archaeological remains are located to the

Ayacucho 5 kilometers from southeast of the Vischongo district at an altitude of 3126 District Vischongo 15 minutes Vischongo meters above sea level. The geographical context of the site is in the surroundings of Pomacocha Lagoon, over Adults S/2.00 4. Pumacocha or Intihuatana Monday to Sunday an area of around 3000m2. The complex was considered Students S/1.00 Archaeological Complex 98 kilometers 9:00 - 17:00 a residential zone and a retreat for the Inca elite. The site Locality or Children S/.0.50 south of the city of 3 hours is made up of a series of buildings. Among others you'll Reference Ayacucho find a palace, a tower, and the baths of the Inca, featuring a carved stone with 13 angles.

Province Lucanas Distance Time Located to the northeast and a few minutes from the city District Carmen Salcedo center of Andamarca, Caniche is a large pre-Inca archaeological complex, with stone buildings constructed on a circular base, with slabs secured by a mixed mud mortar. Some walls reach a height of up to 12 meters. 5. Caniche Archaeological 500 meters from Free entry The site corresponds to the period. The name Complex the city center of 10 minutes on foot Locality or Caniche means: that which bites. Some evidence Andamarca Reference suggests that this place was used to punish delinquents, trapping them between two rocks. Pasco Daniel Alcides An archaeological complex linked to the Yaro culture, Province Carrion Distance Time probably built in the 9th Century. Some of the buildings conserved include circular granaries that are 6 meters in diameter, “chullpas” or burial towers and living areas. It's 5 kilometers from 1 hour 30 minutes also possible to visit extensive walls and caverns that Yanahuanca to from Yanahuance remain mostly intact. District Yanahuanca Rocco, 1 kilometer 1. Goñicutac Archaeological to Rocco, 45 from Rocco to the Free entry Complex minutes on foot complex

63 kilometers from Locality or Pasco to 4 hours Reference Yanahuanca

Daniel Alcides Located at an altitude of 3800 meters above sea level, Province Carrion Distance Time this site is composed of rectangular and circular living quarters, some with two stories, as well as "chullpas" or 2 kilometers from funeral towers with braced interiors. In this citadel you 1 hour 40 minutes Tapuc to can observe an orderly system of roads with tiers, on foot from Tapuc, District Tapuc Chumpinvilicas, 65 passageways, a system of footpaths, family living units, 3 hours by car from 2. Chumpinvilcas kilometers from corrals and military barracks. Pasco Free entry Archaeological Complex Pasco

8 kilometers from Locality or 25 minutes by car Yanahuanca to Reference from Yanahuanca Tapuc

Daniel Alcides This site is associated with the Yaro culture and is

Pasco Province Carrion Distance Time believed to date from 800 AD. It's composed of circular buildings with braced interiors. Ovens discovered inside 10 kilometers from were probably used to make pottery. The site also Yanahuanca to the 3. Ichugan Archaeological District Yanahuanca 25 minutes by car contains a network of channels. From a lookout small town of Free entry Complex you can see the Chaupihuaranga River and its gorge. Chipipata 63 kilometers from Locality or 4 hours 15 minutes Pasco to Reference by car Yanahuanca Daniel Alcides A complex belonging to the Yaros people (9th Century) Province Carrion Distance Time and built of stone and mud. The site contains plazas, "chullpas" or burial towers, granaries, and living areas measuring 2 meters high and 3 meters in diameter. A 12 kilometers from 1 hour 20 minutes system of tiered pathways runs through the site, with Yanahuanca to from Yanahuanca passageways connecting roads, family living areas, and Vilcabamba, 3 to Vilcamba, 30 court buildings for the judgment and public punishment District Vilcabamba 4. Gorish Archaeological Site kilometers from minutes by car Free entry of offenders. Vilcabamba to the from Vilcabamba to complex the complex

65 kilometers from Locality or Pasco to 4 hours by car Reference Vilcabamba Tumbes Province Tumbes Distance Time Cabeza de Vaca is a complex built on a base of stone District Corrales and adobe that also includes a high concentration of cultural material (ceramics, bones, stone tools and refuse piles) dispersed on adjacent hillsides. Archaeological investigations suggest a period of occupation that started 1. Cabeza de Vaca (Head of Monday to Sunday 5 kilometers from from the Late Intermediate Chimú culture to the Late

the Cow) Archaeological Zone 10 minutes by car 8:30 - 17:00

Locality or the city of Tumbes Horizon, the Inca Empire. This site had a transcendent Reference notoriety in the pre-Hispanic era. Spanish historians knew it simply as the "Corrals." Tumbes Amazonas Province Luya Distance Time Belonging to the Chachapoyas culture, the mountaintop District Tingo fortress of Kuelap functioned as a political, religious, administrative and military center. A yellow stone wall rings the complex, measuring 680 meters long, and up to 20 meters high. Above the entrance gate — past bas- relief stone carvings of animals and birds — two stone 307 kilometers platforms have been constructed to create separate living Adults S/.11.00 from areas known as Upper Town and Lower Town. The ruins 3 hours 30 minutes Seniors & /Trujillo to Monday to Sunday Interpretation hall, of 400 hundred circular stone buildings can be seen, 1. Kuelap by car from Students Locality or In the high part of Cajamarca to 8:00 - 17:00 panels, bathrooms overgrown in many places with trees and bromeliads. Chachapoyas to S/.5.50 Children Reference the Andamarcas Celendin to Tingo Rhomboidal friezes and zigzags in mosaic form, typical of Kuelap S/.1.00 Maria to Kuelap to Chachapoyas culture, adorn the walls. At the uppermost Chachapoyas level is "The Tower," 6.40 meters high and 9 meters wide, and a stone structure called El Tintero,or “the inkpot.”

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time An archaeological complex composed of 6 Inca mausoleums that take characteristics from the 45 kilometers from Chachapoyas culture they conquered. The burial District Leimebamba Leymebamba to 12 hours on foot chambers are decorated with rock paintings. Found in the Lagoon the tombs were funeral bundles, fine textiles, ceramics, woodcarvings, "" (the system of knots the Inca 2. Lagoon of the Condors Free entry Fishing and boating used as a writing/accounting system), crowns and many Lagoon of the 93.11 kilometers other valuable artifacts. The site overlooks a dark- Locality or 3 hours 30 minutes or from Chachapoyas bottomed lagoon, where it is possible to fish and take a Reference by car Condors to Leymebamba boat trip through a valley full of jungle animals and plants.

Province Luya Distance Time A funeral center that's built into a cliff-side, and features "chullpas" or houses of the dead, which closely resemble 5 kilometers from 1 or 2 hours on foot the houses that the Chachapoyas lived in. The adobe District Santo Tomas Santo Tomas to from Santo Tomas and stone construction is painted in a mix of red and Revash to Revash white horizontal panels. The burial houses contain the remains of ropes, nets, necklaces, bones etc., all of which appear to have been offerings to the dead. The 3. Revash Restricted majority of these "funeral houses" have a ceiling of 74.4 kilometers wooden beams, and their exterior walls contain from Chachapoyas 3 hours by car from Locality or prominent cornices, and niches in quadrangular, circular to Santo Tomas Chachapoyas to Reference and T-shapes. The site is extremely well preserved as the (San Bartolo Santo Tomas cliff provides shelter, preventing the kind of weathering turnoff) found at other Chachapoyan ruins.

Province Luya Distance Time The Sarcophagi, know by locals as "Purunmachacos," are associated with the Chachapoyas culture and are 48 kilometers from about 1000 years old. They form part of the District Conila Chachapoyas to 2 hours by car archaeological complex called Chipuric, and are Cruspata characterized by the unique form in which the dead were interred. The burial enclosures are connected laterally in groups of between 4 and 8 coffins, with their backs built Monday to Sunday into the cliff-side. Bodies are entombed sitting in a fetal 4. Karajia Sarcophagi Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and position. The Sarcophagi are great anthropomorphic 13:00 - 17:00 coffins, 2 meters tall, made from clay mixed with wood 20 minutes on foot and rock. They depict a humanoid head and upper torso. Locality or from Cruspata to All face west, looking over the river valley. Reference the site

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time An archaeological complex constructed from stone bricks, held together by a mud mortar, Yalape was an urban center that dates from the years 1100 to 1300 AD. 21 kilometers from Belonging the Chachapoyas culture, the site sprawls over District Levanto the city of 40 minutes by car 4 hectares, and has low walls, suggesting a residential Chachapoyas area with few defenses. The hilltop complex contains the signature circular buildings of the Chachapoyas culture, Monday to Sunday featuring rhomboid and zigzag friezes of the kind that are 5. Yalape Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and found at Kuelap. 13:00 - 17:00

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Province Chachapoyas Distance Time A pre-Inca settlement built into a hillside, unusual for the 8 kilometers from Chachapoyas, who usually built on top of mountain District Magdalena Magdalena to the 1 hour on foot ridges. The 3 hectare complex sits on the southeast site slope of a sharp spur, where five platforms have been constructed to support huts and towers built from stone 6. Macro Archaeological and mortar. The site dates from 1100 to 1300 AD. Stone Free entry Complex platforms and house foundations are decorated with 50 meters from the 37 kilometers from Locality or 2 hours 30 minutes rhomboid friezes and wall carvings. It's calculated that right bank of the Chachapoyas to Reference by car the complex housed 100 people at the height of the Utcubamba River Magdalena Chachapoyas culture, and the town was valued for its artistic contributions.

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time In the surrounding A township built from stone, with blocks worked into countryside you can symmetrical shapes and placed in position with mud see orchids, mortar. The buildings date from 1100 to 1350 AD. This 18 kilometers from 3 hours on foot and agricultural housing complex from the Chachapoyas culture features District Leimebamba Leymebamba to by mule from development and rhomboidal decorative stonework, and prominent La Congona Leymebamba Monday to Sunday native vegetation quadrangular internal cornices. 7. La Congona Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00 86 kilometers from 3 hours 30 minutes Locality or Amazonas Chachapoyas to from Chachapoyas Reference Leymebamba to Leymebamba

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time A housing complex of circular stone buildings associated with the Chachapoyas culture, with rhomboidal and 3 kilometers from District La Jalca 45 minutes on foot zigzag stone ornamentation, and prominent cornices in La Jalca Grande their walls. Like all buildings from this period of Chachapoyas dominance (1100 - 1350 AD), they were built from stone with mud mortar. The site is surrounded Monday to Sunday 8. Ollape Archaeological by a mix of farms and natural vegetation, and from here Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and Complex you can see Jalca Grande, probably the most traditional 35 kilometers from 13:00 - 17:00 Locality or 3 hours 30 minutes village in the Amazonas region. The town has a church Chachapoyas to Reference by car built in the early days of Spanish colonization in 1540, La Jalca using Chachapoyas design and decorative techniques.

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time A population center built on top of a hill, with the remains of 500 circular houses constructed by the Chachapoyas 70 kilometers from culture (1100-1300 AD). Notable for the wide expanse of 3 or 4 hours by car District Mariscal Castilla Chachapoyas to its ruins and its impressive construction techniques, the from Chachapoyas San Pedro de Utac Monday to Sunday mortar used to hold the stonework together here is 9. Olan Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and hidden from the naked eye. The town was an artistic 13:00 - 17:00 center, and contains larger than usual stone frieze 4 kilometers from Locality or 1 hour on foot from decorations. The site is surrounded by modern farms and San Pedro de Utac Reference San Pedro de Utac cultivated land. to Olan

Province Luya Distance Time A funeral complex of the Chachapoyas culture, associated with the Chipuric style, which along with District Luya Viejo Revash created the principal burial styles of the culture. The result is the construction of funeral statues in cliffs that are difficult to access. They were built in the following manner: in the center of the statue the body is found Monday to Sunday wrapped in the skin of an animal or in blankets, 10. Chipuric - Mausoleum of 8 kilometers from 2 hours by car and Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and which are were then further bound by a web of ropes. Luya Locality or Luya on foot 13:00 - 17:00 This bundle is covered by a thick cap of clay and small Reference stones. In this interior cavity, in some cases, a conical building frame remains in place, created from four sticks tied together over the head of the deceased.

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time A series of petroglyphs in high relief, Pitaya is believed to District be 3000 years old. The carvings take the shape of 30 Monday to Sunday distinct types of flora, and hunting scenes, in a field 20 kilometers from 11. Pitaya Petroglyphs 30 minutes by car Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and of rocks and stones about 100 meters square. From the Locality or the city of and an hour on foot 13:00 - 17:00 site you can see the Utcumbamba River and dense Reference Chachapoyas vegetation native to the region.

Province Luya Distance Time Located to the west of the Fortress of Kuelap, covering an area of approximately 6 hectares, the enormous District Pisuquia complex of Gran Vilaya contains a number of archaeological sites. You can enter around 5000 circular and rectangular buildings, all with the rhomboidal friezes that symbolize the height of the Chachapoyas culture Monday to Sunday (1100 - 1350 AD). The site is famous for the controversial 12. Gran Vilaya 54 kilometers from 3 hours by car and Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and figure who discovered it in 1985. Gene Savoy, an Chachapoyas 3 hours on foot 13:00 - 17:00 Locality or American explorer was nicknamed "the real Indiana Reference Jones" and explored much of the Peruvian Amazon. Archaeologists hotly dispute his claims to have found this and other sites.

Province Chachapoyas Distance Time A political and military center for the Inca culture, its buildings include a series of stonework porticos and houses. According to studies, the ruins were the seat of District Chuquibamba 173.21 kilometers Monday to Sunday government for a group of people belonging to the 13. Cochabamba via Leymebamba 14 hours by bus Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and Chacha Kingdom. The site covers 3 hectares and dates to Pusac and and on foot 13:00 - 17:00 from the years 1350 to 1450 AD. The site is still Chuquibamba shrouded by natural vegetation, and has not been fully Locality or excavated. Reference

Province Utcubamba Distance Time The rock paintings appear in the entrance to three caves, where you can appreciate animal figures that defy the 40 kilometers from 4 hours by car and imagination. These caves contain narrow corridors that District Yamon Bagua to Chiñuña on foot start just meters from the entrance. With difficulty it's possible to get close to the roof where you can see Monday to Sunday expansive paintings of herds of animals. Representations 14. Rock Paintings of Yamon Free entry 8:00 - 12:00 and of people in dancing poses can also be found, but the 13:00 - 17:00 most important paintings depict a chessboard-like Locality or 10 kilometers from 1 hour on foot patchwork painted in red, yellow and orange. Reference Chiñuña to the site Cusco Distance Time In an area above Cusco that contains 33 distinct District Cusco archaeological sites, the most famous is the Fortress of Saqsaywaman. This complex is considered the most important ceremonial site of the Hanan Qosqo (High Cusco) period. The site has three retaining terraces, featuring huge walls with precisely interlocking stones, Requires Tourist creating a zigzag formation. Some speculate the plan Ticket (Boleto was to always be able to outflank a besieging army, Turistico) Entry from 8:00 - others that the shape forms the teeth in the figure of a Foreigners 1. The Fortress of 15:00 Monday to puma that Cusco was designed to resemble. The fort 2 kilometers S/.130 Foreign Saqsaywaman 10 minutes by car Sunday, closing contains three towers. The Central Tower, called Muyuj Locality or northeast of Cusco students & local Reference time 17:00 Marca “the round place” was a residence for the Incas. Its adults S/.70 walls were covered in gold and silver plate. The second Local Students tower was known as Paucamarca “the friendly place” and S/.40 the third tower, called Sallajmarca “the rough place”. The esplanade in front of Saqsaywaman hosts the festival held every 24th of June.

Province Cusco Distance Time Qenqo ("labyrinth" in the Quechua language) is District Cusco considered a cult site where ceremonies were held to honor the sun, moon and stars. The site combines Inca Requires Tourist construction techniques with a natural rock formation, out Ticket (Boleto of which corridors and caverns have been carved. Among Turistico) the structures is an Intihuatana, a solar clock, on top of Foreigners the rock formation; a zigzag shaped channel that passes Monday to Sunday 2. Qenqo 3 kilometers S/.130 Foreign nearby, sacred "" (a spirit made from corn) was 15 minutes by car 7:00 - 18:00 Locality or northeast of Cusco students & local poured down it for use in ceremonies; an amphitheater, Reference adults S/.70 "el tormo" formed of 19 niches, in front of which a stone 6 Local Students meters high has been erected, and the room for S/.40 sacrifices, an underground chamber with tables and cupboards carved into the rock.

Province Cusco Distance Time This archaeological group appears from its western side District Cusco to be an open stone facade and a tranquil plaza. From Requires Tourist the east it’s a fortress in a strategic location, dominating Ticket (Boleto the surrounding territory and protecting the main road Turistico) entering Cusco. The site includes numerous enclosures, Foreigners interior plazas, bathing zones, aqueducts, watchtowers Monday to Sunday 3. Puka Pukará 7 kilometers 30 minutes by car, S/.130 Foreign and pathways, which form a complex with a distinctive Locality or 7:00 - 18:00 northeast of Cusco 2 hours on foot students & local outline, and an urban plan that's admirably simple and Reference adults S/.70 functional. The strategic location indicates a military Local Students function and its use as a customs house for controlling S/.40 entry into the Inca's imperial capital.

Province Cusco Distance Time Tambomachay is an Inca site a short distance from 50 kilometers from Pukapukara that dates from the year 1500. It had a District Cusco 1 hour by car Cusco Requires Tourist religious function honoring water as a vital part of Ticket (Boleto and regeneration of the earth. The monument Turistico) consists of three sectors: the fountains, where you can Foreigners appreciate waterways and platforms on several levels, the 4. Tambomachay Water Monday to Sunday S/.130 Foreign canals, and finally the agricultural sector that is a Temple 7:00 - 18:00 Locality or students & local collection of platforms used to control irrigation. These Reference adults S/.70 areas are connected to each other by a series of Local Students pathways called "sarunas." S/.40

Province Urubamba Distance Time One of the most significant and extensive archaeological 77.7 kilometers complexes of the Inca Empire, the town of Ollantaytambo 2 hours via District Ollantaytambo from Cusco via has some of the oldest continually occupied dwellings in Chinchero Chinchero . The Spanish believed the mountainside sites overlooking the town to be a fortresses because of their extraordinary walls and imposing terraces built into Requires Tourist the hillside. But Ollantaytambo was actually just a town Ticket (Boleto and ceremonial center strategically located to take full Turistico) advantage of the convergence of the Patakancha and Foreigners valleys. The town was built by the Monday to Sunday 5. Ollantaytambo S/.130 Foreign emperor Pachacutec to serve as his personal estate. But 7:00 - 18:00 97 kilometers students & local it played an important part in the final defense of the Locality or northeast of Cusco 2 hours 30 minutes adults S/.70 empire, when Manco Inca repelled the Spanish Reference via Pisac Local Students first attempt to take the town. S/.40 Ollantaytambo has been profiled as a city of perfect urban planning, which is evident from the streets, plazas, water channels, staircases, bridges, towers and temples, all of which reveal incredibly sophisticated stonework.

Province Urubamba Distance Time Chinchero is a site that presents exceptional expressions of stonemasonry in the midst of a town that keeps 30 kilometers from 35 minutes by car, Requires Tourist ancient traditions alive. It was constructed by Tupac Inca District Chinchero Cusco to 45 minutes by bus Ticket (Boleto Yupanqui around 1480 and consists of a collection of Chinchero from Cusco Turistico) architectural spaces: pre-Columbian walls, enclosures, Foreigners 6. Chinchero Archaeological Monday to Sunday platforms, staircases and altars. The historic center of S/.130 Foreign Complex 7:00 - 18:00 Chinchero is also considered unique because it mixes an students & local 200 meters from 5 minutes walk archaeological complex and a town made from Inca Locality or adults S/.70 the town's main from the main foundations and walls, with a population that has Reference Local Students square square maintained its ancestral customs. S/.40

Province Calca Distance Time The park is formed around an Inca mountaintop citadel. Under one of its ridges is the valley of Vilcanota, where 10 kilometers from District Pisac 20 minutes by car the modern town of Pisac now stands. Ascending up to the town of Pisac the fort, an amphitheater of terraces has been carved out Requires Tourist of the hillside. The stonework allows irrigated farming at Ticket (Boleto an altitude far higher than is possible elsewhere. Across Turistico) from the fort, a hill is covered with funeral niches, their Foreigners Monday to Sunday window-like openings carved out of the rock. The ruins 7. Pisaq Archaeological Park S/.130 Foreign 7:00 - 18:00 and the town nearby derive their name from Pisaka, a 32 kilometers from students & local Locality or species of partridge that was abundant in the region; it's Cusco to the 1 hour from Cusco adults S/.70 Reference also related to the name of Cristobal Pisaq Topa, who complex Local Students was one of the people who helped to create the famous S/.40 that was written by the Spanish Viceroy Toledo.

Province Calca Distance Time Huchuay Qosqo is an extensive group of stone platforms From Lamay turn with walls that are slightly inclined inward to prevent at Km 47 on the 1 hour 30 minutes damage from earthquakes. In the town section you can District Lamay Cusco - Urubamba by car discern a building with three stories. The enclosure has a Follows two routes, road rectangular stone floor of astounding quality. In the the first taking one 8. Huchuy Qosqo Open every day interior a ledge appears to be in place to support beams day, the second to form a middle floor. There are also door recesses, taking two days Locality or windows and cupboards. You can also visit three long Reference buildings, only one of which is in perfect condition, with five doorways and matching windows with views of the valley. Province Urubamba Distance Time Moray is a system of stone farming terraces formed in 9 kilometers concentric circles, built around three gigantic holes, all at District Maras northeast of the 25 minutes by car different levels. The largest of these contains 12 circular city of Maras Adults S/.10.00 levels, to a depth of 100 meters. At the base of each hole Monday to Sunday 9. Moray Archaeological Site Students is a system of drains to prevent the accumulation of 7:00 - 17:00 rainwater. Experts say the site was a center for 30 minutes by car S/.5.00 Locality or 15 kilometers from agricultural experimentation and the production of seeds and 45 minutes by Reference Maras to Moray from diverse climates, made possible by the different bus atmospheric conditions found on each terrace.

Province Urubamba Distance Time A pre-Inca city estimated to have reached its high point between 800 and 1100 AD, in the period corresponding 30 kilometers from District Maras 45 minutes by bus with the development of the Wari culture. Today Pikillaqta Cusco to Pikillaqta contains around 700 buildings, 200 "kanchas" or Adults S/.10.00 apartments and 504 "qolqas" or storehouses. At its peak Monday to Sunday 10. Pikillaqta Students it's said to have had a population of about 10,000 people. 7:00 - 18:00 S/.5.00 The city plan is geometric, and displays a harmony that is Locality or almost perfect, divided into blocks with arrow-straight Cusco Reference streets.

Province Urubamba Distance Time The famous Inca mountaintop city has captured the world’s attention. In 2007 Machu Picchu was elected one of the new 7 in a global poll. With its 3 hours 30 minutes majestic architecture, intricate stone walls, esplanades, 112 kilometers by train from and platforms, the city is marvelously adapted to the from Cusco to Cusco, a 25 mountain escarpment it sits on. The city lies at 2,430 Aguas Calientes, District Machupicchu minute flight, 2 meters above sea level, immersed in mountain forests 97 kilometers from hours by car from and surrounded by an extraordinary landscape. Building Cusco to Cusco to started at Machu Picchu around 1430 AD but it was Ollantaytambo Ollantaytambo abandoned at the time of the Spanish conquest, and was Site museum in not discovered by the Conquistadors. The sanctuary of Foreign Adults Machu Picchu town Machu Picchu is divided into two large sectors — one an S/.122 Foreign (Aguas Calientes) agricultural area, the other the urban area or citadel. The 11. Machu Picchu Historical Students S/.61 Monday to Sunday Aguas Calientes offers first surrounds the second. The peak of Wayna Picchu is Sanctuary Peruvian adult 6:00 - 15:00 a range of services: often considered a third sector, offering a different S/.62 Peruvian Restaurants, Hotels, 1 hour 30 minutes perspective on the monument from above. The sanctuary student S/.31 Hostels, ATMs, stores, 44 kilometers from by train from is also characterized by great tropical biodiversity, with security, Internet Ollantaytambo to Ollantaytambo to dozens of endemic species in an area covering 37,320 Aguas Calientes, 8 Aguas Calientes hectares. The entire complex was declared a UNESCO Locality or Aguas Calientes - kilometers from (no car access) in 1983. Reference Machu Aguas Calientes Path from train train station to the station is 20 Sanctuary minutes on foot, 8 minutes by bus

Province La Convención Distance Time Few discoveries have revealed as much interest in recent District Santa Teresa years as Choquequirao (Chuqui K'iraw in Quechua, "cradle of gold"), which many consider as archaeologically important and extensive as Machu Picchu. It is situated on a high plateau in the Province of La Convencion, in the Vlicabamba Valley. Archaeologists believe that it was one of the last Lost of the Inca, 160 kilometers 4 hours by car or where they took refuge from 1536. Choquequirao is an from Cusco to the bus from Cusco to extraordinary complex that was built in the last years of Saywite turnoff, 15 Saywite turnoff, 30 the Inca Empire (1471-1527 AD). It's possible that it was kilometers from the Adults S/.36 Monday to Sunday 12. Choquequirao minutes by car or Bathrooms one of the points of control and entry to the Vilcabamba Saywite turnoff to Students S/.18 7:00 - 18:00 Locality or bus to Cachora, 12 region, and an administrative nucleus with political, social Cachora, 30 Reference hours on foot or and economic functions. It consists of 9 architectural kilometers from mule to groups, all made of stone, and a system of 180 terraces, Cachora to Choquequirao along with residential houses, administrative buildings, Choquequirao artists residences and irrigation systems. The site takes up 2 hectares, and is still only partially excavated.

Province Quispicanchi Distance Time Tipon is an archaeological complex comprised of 12 terraces flanked by perfectly polished stone walls and 3 kilometers from enormous platforms, ornamental waterfalls and channels. the 20.5KM turnoff The complex is considered one of the royal sites and District Oropesa on the Cusco - 1 hour on foot gardens that were constructed by Wiracocha, the 8th Puno highway Adults S/.10.00 Inca king. The site is composed of different sectors 13. Tipon Archaeological Monday to Sunday from Tipon Students including Tipon, Intiwatana (the sun dial), Pukutuyuj and Complex 7:00 - 18:00 S/.5.00 Pucará, Cruz Moqo, the cemetery of Pitupujio, and Hatun Wayqo, among others. town of Tipon - a 40 minutes by bus Locality or 20 kilometers from village of the from Cusco to Reference Cusco to Tipon Quispicanchis Tipon

Province Cusco Distance Time In Quechua "Qorikancha" means "courtyard of gold" and District Cusco was one of the architectural marvels of the Inca empire. It was considered the most important temple in the kingdom, dedicated to the worship of the sun. Located in the heart of the imperial capital Cusco, the site was Adults S/.6.00 Monday to On site museum, constructed of granite, andesite and green diorite stone 500 meters from 14. Qorikancha Students Saturday 8:30 - information signs and — materials that allow the construction of preternaturally Locality or Along Avenida El the main square of 10 minutes walk S/.3.00 17:30 modules straight walls. The Spanish razed the temple built the Reference Sol Cusco Church of on top of its foundation, but much of the complex, including its curved outer wall, remains intact.

Province Canchis Distance Time An Inca archaeological site that dates from the 15th District San Pedro century, it was mentioned by the early colonial historians Garcilaso de la Vega, Cieza de León and Guaman Poma de Ayala. They all considered it among the most audacious works of engineering built by the Inca. The most important feature of the site is the Temple of Wiracocha, an enormous two-story structure, more than Adults S/10.00 90 meters long, and 18 to 20 meters high. Before the 15. Raqchi Archaeological 117 kilometers Monday to Sunday Students Spanish destroyed it the temple was considered to be Complex from Cusco to 2 hours by car 7:00 - 17:00 Locality or S/.5.00 among the largest buildings in the empire. The site also Raqchi Reference includes military barracks, priests quarters, "the baths of the Inca," living quarters known as Raccay Raccay, the cemeteries of Ccumo Ccacca, a zone of terraces and the royal road, among other constructions.

Province Cusco Distance Time A wall in central Cusco constructed from an extremely District Cusco hard type of stone known as green diorite, located on the outside of a palace attributed to the Inca Roca. The wall is admirable for its polygonal architecture, and runs along almost the entire length of Hatunrumiyoc Road, one of the main pedestrian thoroughfares in Cusco. In the 16. Hatun Rumiyoc (Stone of 100 meters from center of the wall is a stone with 12 cut angles, famous Near the Art Free entry 12 Angles) Locality or the Cusco Plaza 5 minutes walk for the perfection with which each corner lies flush Museum of the Reference de Armas against the surrounding stones. Colonial and republican Archbishopric builders have added to the wall, and it now forms one side of the Archbishop's Palace — the Museum of Art.

Province Anta Distance Time Also known as Limatambo, the historic tradition suggests District Limatambo that Tarawasi was ordered and constructed by the Inca ruler Pachacutec with the aim of establishing an inn or retreat in the region, on the road from Chinchaysuyo. Adults S/10.00 Centered on a great platform with stone walls leaning Monday to Sunday 17. Tarawasi 50 kilometers from Students slightly into the hill, it displays a cellular style, using Locality or 1 hour 7:00 - 17:00 Cusco S/.5.00 interlocking granite blocks. It also includes an altar of Reference rock or "usnu" and agricultural terraces with their own water sources and irrigation channels.

Province Espinar Distance Time This Inca cultural center, at an altitude of 3950 meters District Alto Pichigua above sea level, is composed of a number of buildings made from simple stonemasonry supported by mud mortar. K'anamarca features rectangular stone enclosures with dimensions from 3 to 8 meters across, 5 Adults S/.7.00 to 18 meters long, and from 5 to 7 meters high. Circular 18. K'anamarca 16 kilometers from Students 20 minutes by car buildings range in diameter from 4 to 5 meters. The Locality or northeast of the Yauri S/.4.00 Reference town of Yuari majority of these were storehouses for food. The internal walls and appointments in the enclosures retain their original mud mortar. Ancash Province Distance Time Willcahuain means "house of the grandson." The site District Independencia dates to between 700 and 900 AD and was likely built under the influence of the Wari culture. The main building was constructed on a platform that was partially Adults S/4.50 filled with stone and earth in order to create a flat area. University The house has 3 levels, each with entrances through 1. Willcahuain and Ichic Students & Monday to Sunday different walls, the first west, the second south and the 7 kilometers Willcahuain Archaeological 30 minutes by car, Seniors 4.50 and holidays 8:.00 - last east. Inside rooms are connected by passages, northeast of Complex Locality or 3 hours on foot School 18:00 creating a symmetrical floor plan. The of the Huaraz Reference Students walls is rustic stone connected by mud mortar. Eight S/.0.50 hundred meters from Willcahuain is Ichic Willcahuain, a complex of smaller buildings in a slightly different style.

Province Santa Distance Time Waullac dates from the pre-Inca times, around the year District Nepeña 600 AD (Middle Horizon Period) linked to the Recauy culture, and belonging to the Wari period. It's believed to 2. Waullac 2 kilometers east Semi-restricted have been used as a funeral complex, and is composed 5 minutes by car Locality or of Huaraz of 5 stone structures with elevated compartments Reference separated by small niches.

Province Casma Distance Time An ancient archaeological site dating to 1600 BC. District Casma Experts have speculated that its location on the top of a peak gave the builders control of a nearby . Another hypothesis is that Aldas was used for religious 3. Las Aldas Archaeological ceremonies. It was constructed from a grid of masonry 15 kilometers from Free entry and mud, with foundations laid with reed sacks filled with Site Locality or 30 minutes by car the city of Casma rocks from the mountain. The principal platform is Reference surrounded by 17 lateral and secondary pyramids.

Province Casma Distance Time Considered the oldest solar observatory in the Americas, District Casma this enormous complex was built in the 4th century BC along Peru's coastal desert. Composed of three concentric oval outer walls, the site covers 4 square kilometers. The "observatory" is a line of evenly spaced Take the turnoff at low stone towers — "the 13 Towers of Chanquillo" — that 4. Chanquillo Observatory KM 361 of the Free entry run on a north-south axis along ridge. To the west and Locality or Sector San Rafael- Panamericana east of this line, archaeologists have found two Reference Valle Norte Highway observation points. From these the 13 towers are accurate reference markers to plot the position of the sun and moon at different times of the year.

Province Casma Distance Time The complex sits on the ridge of a rocky peak and its 5 kilometers facade is a wall covered with about 400 stones, carved to 10 minutes from District Casma southeast of represent two columns of approaching warriors. Casma Casma Interspersed between them are depictions of people to Adults S/.5.50 be sacrificed amid amputated limbs. There's still debate 5. Warriors of Sechin Students Monday to Sunday On site museum, over what these figures mean, but their style is unlike any Archaeological Complex S/.3.00 Children 9:00 - 17:00 signage other stone carvings found in Peru. Archaeologists 370 kilometers Locality or 4 hours from Lima S/.1.00 believe that the interior of this structure was built first, from Lima to Reference to Casma from adobe and stone, and then the stone carvings were Casma laid on the outside.

Province Huaylas Distance Time Tumshukaico is the ruins of an extensive temple complex District Caraz built from the yellow rock typical of Chachapoyas monuments and featuring carved stone sculptures. The growth of agriculture and urban encroachment has 6. Tumshukaico 1 kilometer from Free entry reduced the complex to a fraction of its original size. Archaeological Monument 5 minutes by car Locality or Carás Among the buildings is “the Cave of Tumshukaico,” a Reference walled subterranean enclosure entered through a narrow stone passage.

Province Pallasca Distance Time This site is linked to the Recuay culture (Early 182 kilometers Intermediate Period, c. 100BC-600AD). It consists of 4 District Pallasca from to 8 hours by car structures locally called "caserones" (literally: big, Cabana rambling houses). The buildings feature an outer On site museum, 7. Pashas Archaeological Site Free entry retaining wall with internal chambers constructed on a signage 2 kilometers from stone base. These platforms sit on the flanks of a hill, Locality or 1 hour on foot from the main square of stand up to 15 meters high and are lined with mud. Reference Cabana Cabana to Pashas Likewise, a collection of square and rectangular structures on an oval base built on similar platforms on th b "L C ill " k Province Yuncay Distance Time This cave is the oldest site found in Peru that shows 3 kilometers from signs of humans experimenting with the domestication of Shupluy to the 3 hours walk from plants. It was occupied from approximately 9700 BC. District Mancos Cave of the Shupluy Researchers believe that it was used as camping area for Guitarist a band of hunter-gatherers that lived here for part of the year, only to abandon agricultural pursuits during the hunting season. Thanks to the dryness of the cave rock 8. "Cave of the Guitarist" Free entry paintings have been well preserved, allowing experts to (Cueva de Guitarrero) retrieve information about the vegetables and animals 50 minutes by bus Locality or 45 kilometers from that the cave's inhabitants ate and cultivated. When the from Huaraz to cave was discovered in the 1960s, the bones of Ancash Reference Huaraz to Shupluy Shupluy mastodons and llamas were found among the remains.

Province Santa Distance Time The old name for this temple was "Punguchuco," which District Nepeña means "door" or "hat" in the local language. The complex is believed to have been built by the Sechin culture, dating from 2000-1500 BC. The building is made of two platforms connected by a flight of stairs, and was constructed from adobe and flat slabs of stone, Monday to Sunday connected by mud mortar. The monument covers an 9. Sanctuary of Punkuri About 2.5 30 kilometers from Free entry 20 minutes by car 8:00 - 17:00 area of roughly 3000m2 and reaches a height of 8 Locality or kilometers east of Chimbote Reference the town of San meters. Archaeologists believe it was a temple to a cult of Jacinto - Chimbote the feline, either puma or jaguar. A figure of a great cat is carved into an adobe and stone doorway.

Province Hauri Distance Time The ancient capital of the Chavin culture dates from District Chavin de Huántar approximately 1200 BC until its decline in 200 BC. That era is known as the Formative period. The complex is comprised of a series of massive stone buildings. Their scale and the anthropomorphic and animal designs carved on the walls suggest they were temples. The site is on a flood prone river valley, a problem resolved by an ingenious drainage system. Some experts argue that the rushing water was channeled to create the sound of a Adults S/.11.00 jaguar's roar throughout the temple. Archaeologists Monday to Sunday 10. Chavín de Huántar Students Parking, bathrooms, believe that Chavin was a pilgrimage site, and at least as 109 kilometers and holidays 8:00 - Complex 2 hours by car S/.5.50 Children bi-lingual guides prominent in its day as Cusco was for the Inca. The Locality or from Huaraz 17:00 Reference S/.3.00 buildings are linked by a maze of tunnels and corridors, with strategically placed gaps in the rock allowing an unusual level of sunlight into underground chambers. The buildings have steeply sloping walls, their profile appears pyramidal. It's evident that these buildings were constructed progressively, with new platforms added to original structures.

Province Casma Distance Time The Pampa de Llamas is an elaborately planned, almost District San Rafael symmetrical urban center in the form of a large central building made from adobe bricks and mud mortar, with smooth-sided walls covered in multi-colored painted murals and high relief carvings. The rounded corners and From the KM 7 the human and serpent figures carved on them are turnoff on the reminiscent of the Sechin culture, closely linked to the 11. Mojeque y Pampa de Casma - Huaraz Free entry builders of this complex. The adjoining Mojeque site is Llamas 2 hours 30 minutes Locality or highway, take the famous for the enormous, brightly colored paintings of Reference route across the human faces found in its collection of mud brick houses. Pampa Rosario The whole complex belongs to the Early Formative Period and is believed to be 3700 years old.

Province Pallasca Distance Time Belongs to the Formative Period (2000 BC - 200 BC). District Pallasca The site appears to have been a place for religious or mystic ritual. La Galgada consists of several circular buildings, each with a circular furnace, in the middle of a pyramidal structure. A number of construction styles are 30 kilometers from superimposed on each other, suggesting a long period of 12. La Galgada the city of Free entry occupation and regular additions and refinements to the Archaeological Site Locality or 5 hours by car Chimbote to La original buildings. These characteristics are found at the Reference Galgada majority of sites from this period in the North Central highlands, and collectively they're known as the Kotosh Tradition.

Province Santa Distance Time This archaeological monument is considered a religious District Nepeña center of the . This expansive citadel was Adults S/.3.00, built on a large rocky elevated platform by the occupants University of the Empeña Valley, during the Formative Period. It Students & 22 kilometers from includes a stone building with two terraced platforms, 13. Citadel of Pañamarca Seniors S/.2.00 Events hall Locality or the city of 30 minutes by car united by a central staircase. But the main attractions are School Reference Chimbote three staggered pyramids. The most important of these is Students composed of five platforms, joined by zigzag ramps. S/.0.50 Huancabamba Distance Time When the Inca conquered the Piura region in the middle 1 hour 30 minutes of the 15th century they imposed their cult of the divinity 19 kilometers fro by car and on foot of the sun, and for this reason covered the original District Sondorillo Huancabamba to from structure with red clay. In 1960, farmers found the the temple Huancabamba original jaguar temple among the roots of a field they were working. It was not until 1988 that the first 1. Temple of the Jaguar Free entry archaeological investigations were conducted under the 214 kilometers direction of the Italian researcher Mario Polia Meconi. Locality or Caserío de 5 hours by bus from Piura to Jaguar figures were found carved into three terraces Reference Mitupampa from Piura Huancabamba constructed from enormous stone blocks and an upper level of clay.

Province Ayabaca Distance Time In 1996 the National Institute of Culture called Aypate the 2 hours 50 minutes "archaeological capital of Piura". At the site you can 43 kilometers from District Ayabaca by car from observe the archaeological characteristics typical of the Ayabaca Ayabaca Inca state, with its central plaza, meeting hall, ceremonial platforms, houses for chosen women, irrigation channels, fortified lookout and royal passageways. The city exercised control over the people of several neighboring 2. Aypate Archaeological Free entry river basins. This complex is surrounded by a cloud forest Zone 213 kilometers 3 hours 30 minutes laden with orchids and bromeliads, birds, deer and other Locality or Lagoons of Canly from Piura to by car from Piura to species. The site is a collection of widely dispersed Reference Ayabaca Ayabaca buildings covering an area of approximately 2 km2, and displays a broad range of architectural and construction techniques.

Province Sechura Distance Time Illescas is composed of a cemetery, funeral caves and some other small stone structures. Experts consider it a 75 kilometers from 1 hour by car, then place where they can trace the origins of Sechura Man District Sechura Sechura to the 1 hour by boat and the Illescas civilization. The complex is situated 3. Illescas Archaeological embarkation point Free entry around a collection of beaches in the Illescas Zone, like Complex Point Shode, Las Loberas and Nunura Avic. This stretch Locality or 44 kilometers from of the coast is home to sea lions and Humboldt Penguins 45 minutes Reference Piura to Sechura and a host of marine bird species. Piura Province Ayabaca Distance Time The Samanga Petroglyphs are carvings in bas relief on large blocks of stone, made by the ancient "guayacundos" to represent the movement of the stars. District Ayabaca They take their name from the quechua word meaning 68 kilometers from 3 hours 30 minutes 4. Samanga Petroglyphs Free entry "place where the Huacas can rest." In a lower part of the Ayabaca to the from Ayabaca to site is a rock carving called the Altar, inscribed with town of Samanga Samanga Locality or figures representing the Andean conception of duality. Reference

Province Morropón Distance Time The Vicús culture occupied the high zone of Piura and At the KM 50 mark this site, the most extensive cemetery in the culture, was on the route from 1 hour by car from discovered by grave-robbers — or "huaqueros" — in the District Chulucanas Vicús-Yécala via Piura late 1950s, in the Frias zone of Ayabaca Province. Piura During the 1960s archaeologists moved in and studied 5. Vicus Archaeological Area Free entry the Vicus peak, excavating an extensive area. It's calculated that during the years when the site was KM 50 on the Locality or 7 kilometers from 10 minutes by car exploited, robbers looted more than 2,000 tombs, with Chulucanas Reference Chulucanas from Chulucanas more than 40,000 specimens finding their way into Highway private collections overseas.

Province Piura Distance Time Once the capital of the Tallán nation, Narihualá is 3 kilometers from Adults S/.2.00 considered the most important architectural monument in District Catacaos Catacaos to the 10 minutes by car University Piura, standing out for its size and prominent platforms Fort Students & made from adobe brick smoothed over with mud. The fort Monday to Sunday 6. Narihualá Fort Seniors S/.1.00 is divided into four sections, three of which have been 8:00 - 16:00 School completely excavated and studied, with work on the last Locality or 10 kilometers from 15 minutes by bus Students & still underway. The buildings reach a maximum height of Reference Piura to Catacaos Children S/.0.50 40 meters and the site occupies an area of 6 hectares. Moquegua Province Mariscal Nieto Distance Time Baúl Peak is a mountain in the form of a truncated cone, District Torata isolated and dormant. It takes its name from an unusual source, as the direct translation is a trunk or large chest. A small walled citadel sits in its highest reaches, it corresponds with a "colony' of the Wari culture (600-1100 AD). Its placement indicates a strategic position for contact and trade between regions. Some buildings present evidence of architecture from later cultures 1. Baúl Peak Archaeological 18 kilometers including the Inca. Free entry Site Locality or 18 kilometers from northeast of the 20 minutes by car Reference Moquegua city of Moquegua Moquegua

Ica Province Chincha Distance Time The Sentry of the Sun is an extensive collection of mud pyramids connected with the nearby archaeological District Tambo de Mora complex of Tambo de More, the capital of the Chincha Adults S/.7.50 kingdom (1200-1450 AD) that was later occupied by the Seniors S/.3.00 Incas. In the upper part of the main the remains 1. The Sentry or "Huaca" of Monday to Sunday 8 kilometers east Students of a high relief stone frieze can be found. The complex is the Sun 10 minutes by car 8:00 - 16:00 8 kilometers from of Chincha Baja S/.2.00 Children known as the Temple of Chinchaycamac and is often Locality or the Panamericana S/.1.00 likened to Pachacamac, the ancient adobe city on the Reference Sur Highway southern outskirts of Lima.

Province Pisco Distance Time An administrative, urban and military center that dates from the Inca era (Late Horizon 1440-1532), Tambo 45 kilometers from District 30 minutes by car Colorado takes its name from the union of the quechua the city of Pisco Adults S/.7.50 word "tampu," which means resting place, and the Seniors S/.3.00 Spanish term "colorado," from the presence of red, white 2. Archaeological Remains of Monday to Sunday Students and yellow paint used to decorate its adobe walls. The 8:00 - 16:00 At KM 45 on the S/.2.00 Children site covers and area of 12000m2. Of its 6 sectors, sector Locality or 260 kilometers Los Libertadores 3 hours 30 minutes S/.1.00 2 merits special attention. It's known as the Fort, and is Reference from Lima Highway the best preserved of the ruins.

Province Palpa Distance Time Huayuri is surrounded by high stone ridges, protecting an archaeological complex that corresponds with the Late 100 kilometers District Santa Cruz 1 hour Intermediate period (1200-1400 AD), the era just before from Ica to the site Adults S/.7.50 the dominion of the Inca. The city's entrance is on the Seniors S/.3.00 Monday to Sunday west, formed by a gap in the ravine. Built by the Poroma 3. Lost City of the Huayuri Students ethnic group during the reign of Ica Chincha (1100-1479 4 kilometers west 9:00 - 16:00 S/.2.00 Children AD) at its peak it was home to 5000 people. Locality or KM 1 on the Nazca -of the turnoff at KM 10 minutes from S/.1.00 Reference Puquio highway 384 of the the turnoff Panamericana Sur

Province Nazca Distance Time These detailed drawings and lines in geometric patterns and animal shapes cover an area 50 kilometers long and 350 kilometers District Nazca 3 or 4 hours by car 15 kilometers wide. They are on such a scale that they from Ica to Nazca Metal Lookout can only be fully appreciated from the sky. The Nazca S/.1.00 Monday to Sunday On site museum, Lines have two marked characteristics: the grand size of 4. and Geoglyphs Overflight $40 - and holidays 6:00 - bathrooms, guides many of their designs and the shallowness of the outlines between KM 419 25 kilometers from $50 US Tourist 17:00 and aerodrome dug to create them, between 15 and 30 centimeters. Locality or and KM 465 of the the city of Nazca to 15 minutes by car Fee S/.10.00 More than 30 geoglyphs in the form of marine and Reference Panamerica Sur the lines terrestrial animals have been found to date, along with highway geometric and human figures.

Province Nazca Distance Time Cahuachi is an archaeological complex that belongs to District Nazca the (Early Intermediate period 200 BC-700

Ica AD). It’s composed of truncated adobe pyramids, many of which were abandoned between the 5th and 6th The museum Antonini centuries AD. The site also contains structures that Semi-restricted, 5. Cahuachi Ceremonial Near KM 455.2 on displays the most include an open patio on one side, and a high terrace open for tourism Center the Panamerica recent discoveries with roofed enclosures. At the top of the main temples, Locality or in 2011 Reference Sur highway from the site including the Great Temple, evidence has been found of large roofed enclosures whose ceilings were supported by dozens of columns.

Province Nazca Distance Time This extensive necropolis dates from the year 1000 AD, District Nazca and anthropological and archaeological remains have been found inside from the Middle Horizon period associated with the Poroma and Inca cultures. Dozens of From KM 464.2 Adults S/.7.50 open tombs still contain their human remains. In some take a left turn Seniors S/.3.00 cases, these tombs are collected in groups to form a Monday to Sunday nucleus, or family mausoleum. One area shows evidence 6. Necropolis of Chauchilla KM 464.2 on the down a side road 20 minutes by car Students Bathrooms Locality or 8:00 - 14:00 of tall and rectangular structures that could have been Panamerica Sur for 7 kilometers from Nazca S/.2.00 Children Reference more elaborate forms of these nuclei. The necropolis is highway (25 kilometers S/.1.00 from Nazca) one of the largest cemeteries discovered in the Nazca Valley.

Province Ica Distance Time A center of administrative control between the coast and District Vista Alegre the highlands built with signature Inca planning and architectural techniques, during the imperial expansion imposed by the Inca ruler Pachacutec. Built in the rocky Adults S/.7.50 folds of the peak "The Heights of Nazca," the city 1 kilometer from Seniors S/.3.00 7. Los Paredones - Inca Monday to Sunday presents an East-West orientation, and faces the North. Nazca on the Students Administrative Center On the right side of 5 minutes by car 9:00 - 18:00 The complex contains seven sectors, the best preserved Locality or Nazca to Puquio S/.2.00 Children the highway from and most important being sectors 4, 5 and 7, each with a Reference highway S/.1.00 Puquio path distinguishing areas for visitors from those set aside for conservation.

Province Nazca Distance Time These aqueducts are attributed to the Nazca culture District Nazca (Early Intermediate 200 BC - 700 AD). Of the 46 aqueducts that have been discovered 32 still work and Adults S/.7.50 local farmers rely on them for their water supply. Made Students 8. Cantalloc Aqueduct 4 kilometers from from stone they were designed to extract underground 15 minutes by car S/.2.00 Children Locality or the city of Nazca water. Special features called "" are ventilation S/.1.00 Reference wells that drop into the subsoil in a spiral. They ensure the collection of high purity water.

Tacna Province Tacna Distance Time This site contains three burial towers or "chullpas" of District Palca different sizes made from mud and straw with stone cornices.

1. Chullpas of Causuri 51 kilometers from Free entry Locality or East of Palca Tacna Reference Tacna Libertad Province Trujillo Distance Time Considered the largest mud brick city in pre-Hispanic 1.5 kilometers America, and the largest adobe city in the world, Chan from the Chan was the administrative and religious capital of the 45 minutes on foot District Trujillo Chimu culture, whose civilization developed between the from the highway. Highway to the 9th and 15th Centuries. Its territory ranged from Tumbes complex in the north to Carabayllo (Lima) in the south, covering Adult ticket the entire north coast of Peru. Among its most famous S/.11 Student Monday to Sunday On site museum, leaders were Takaynamo, who founded the city, and the 1. Chan Chan Archaeological ticket S/.5.50 and holidays 9:00 - guides, bathrooms, warrior Minchanzaman who took the civilization to its Complex Child ticket 17:00 parking, security. highest point in the 15th century. Within its walls (up to 4.5 kilometers from S/.1.00 60 feet high) it's possible to distinguish plazas, living Locality or Trujillo, following the 5 kilometers north 10 minutes by car quarters, storerooms, workshops, streets, ramparts and Reference Huanchaco east of Trujillo from Trujillo temple pyramids. It became a UNESCO World Heritage highway Site in 1986.

Province Trujillo Distance Time The temples form an archaeological complex that District Moche covered an extensive urban area, 5 kilometers south of modern-day Trujillo. This archaeological complex is composed of two pyramids that represent the Moche culture (from the 1st to 9th Century AD — Intermediate Child ticket On site museum, Period). Constructed from adobe, the temples are S/.1.00 Adult Monday to Sunday 2. Temples of the Sun and 8 kilometers from bathrooms, cafeteria, famous for extremely well preserved murals and colorful 6 kilometers from ticket S/.11.00 and holidays 9:00 - Moon Locality or the main square of 15 minutes souvenir shop, bas-relief carvings, combining depictions of animals and the sea, on foot Student ticket 17:00 mythical creatures, framed by intricate geometric borders. Reference Trujillo telephone from Cerro Blanco S/.4.50 The Temple of the Sun reaches a height of 43 meters. The Temple of the Moon is smaller at 21 meters high.

Province Ascope Distance Time El Brujo is one of the most important archaeological District Magdelena de Cao complexes on the north coast of Peru. Constructed in the Pre-ceramic period, 5000 years ago, "El Brujo" (the Sorcerer) consists of 3 large buildings: the Dark Temple Student and (), the Closed-off Temple (Huaca Cortada) Seniors ticket and the Temple of Old Cao, which offers magnificent 3. El Brujo Archaeological 60 kilometers from S/.3.00 Adult Monday to Sunday One and a half multi-colored friezes depicting a line of red human figures Complex the city center of ticket S/.11.00 9:00 - 16:45 Locality or hours in bas-relief. The three temples are unique among Moche Magdelena de Cao Trujillo Child ticket Reference cultural sites for their spectrum of colors and designs. S/.4.50 Each temple measures at least 20 meters high and 1.5 kilometers long.

Province Sanchez Carrion Distance Time A collection of stone buildings on a plateau at the top of Markahuama peak, Markahuamachuco covers an area 3 10 kilometers from kilometers long and between 500 and 600 meters wide. the town of 30 minutes drive The complex consists of three principal elevations: the District to from Huamachuco Castle Hill (East), the Fort (Center), and the Galleries of the complex. the Peak of the Nuns (West). Its building techniques and 4. Markahuamachuco layout demonstrate a high level of construction Archaeological Complex engineering, architecture and urban planning. With these attributes, and the altitude of the plateau (3000 meters On the access road 181 kilometers 8 hours drive from above sea level) the complex offers panoramic views of Locality or between Trujillo and from Trujillo to Trujillo to the surrounding landscape. Reference Quiruvilca Huamachuco Huamachuco

Province Pacasmayo Distance Time Pakatnamu is an imposing ceremonial, political, District Guadalupe administrative and ceremonial center from the Chimu kingdom in the Jequetepeque river valley. It includes more than 50 truncated pyramids and connected residences. The complex also features corridors and 14 kilometers from 5. Pakatnamu Complex Between Free entry plazas, and in other sections, murals with painted relief Locality or the main plaza of 30 minutes Jequetepeque and carvings. Three large walls or ramparts protect the north, Reference Pacasmayo Pacasmayo south and other sectors of the cemetery, where important textile pieces have been recovered.

Province Trujillo Distance Time La Esmeralda archaeological site belongs to the Chimu District Trujillo culture and was constructed from adobe during the civilization's first stage of development. The rectangular

Libertad University complex covers an area of 2600m2 and forms two Students platforms that you can ascend by two central ramps. The S/.5.50 Adults Monday to Sunday 6. La Esmeralda 3 kilometers from main features of the pyramid are the carved friezes Between Approx 8 minutes S/.11.00 9:00 to 16:30 Locality or Trujillo depicting fish, birds, marine animals and fishing nets, Jequetepeque and Children and Reference which were central to daily life in the coastal civilization. Pacasmayo Seniors S/.1.00 The carvings remain in their original, un-restored state.

Province Sanchez Carrion Distance Time An archaeological complex linked to the Huamachuco culture, consisting of various architectural structures that 181 kilometers form an octagonal plane. Enclosures, plazas and District Huamachuco from Trujillo to 8 hours galleries have been conserved inside the complex. They Huamachuco are built from stonemasonry and red clay mortar with walls up to 5 meters high, still in their original state. The tops of the walls project outwards, presumably to support 7. Wiracochapampa Free entry the roof. From its layout the site appears to have been an 3.5 kilometers North of administrative center. from the main Locality or Huamachuco where plaza of 10 minutes Reference it passes an Inca Huamachuco to trail the complex

Province Trujillo Distance Time One of the oldest pyramidal temples in the Moche valley, District La Esperanza the Temple of the Dragon is considered to be the first settlement of the Wari culture in the region. The American archaeologist Richard Schaedell considered Adults S/.11.00 the site to be about 1100 years old, between the Chavin Children S/.1.00 8. Temple of the Dragon or 4 kilometers from Monday to Sunday and Tiahuanaco periods. It covers an area of 3245m2. University Rainbow (Huaca El Dragón o the main plaza of 10 minutes 9:00 - 16:30 The structure is almost square in shape and built from Locality or Students Arco Iris) Trujillo adobe and mud bricks. Visitors can admire the high level Reference S/.5.50 of engineering development the Wari achieved, as the whole structure is built to withstand earthquakes.

Province Chepen Distance Time The attraction of Chepén is the mix of pre-Hispanic District Chepen archaeological buildings with 23 statues collected from more recent eras. It now forms part of a catholic 2 hours from pilgrimage route emulating the "Via Crucis" — the Way of 9. Chepén Mountain and 130 kilometers Trujillo to Chepen, the Cross. The path is a series of stone constructions Crucis Path (Via Crucis) Locality or from Trujillo to 20 minutes walk built in the pre-Inca era, integrated with a collection of Reference Chepen from Chepen to the altars, combined with meeting and living areas for the peak nobility. A large wall surrounds the site with main entrances on the north and south.

Province Bolivar Distance Time This circular complex of 350 buildings includes a number District Uchumarca of underground chambers and features a rectangular building five stories high, situated on the highest part of 10. Pirca Pirca Archaeological 15 kilometers from Mount Pirca Pirca. In Quechua “pirca” means wall. It Free entry Complex Locality or the district of 3 hours by mule appears Pirca Pirca was used as a ritual center. The Reference Uchumarca walls are stonemasonry supported by mud mortar.

Province Chepen Distance Time This complex is an integrated collection of archaeological 4 kilometers north 7 minutes from structures and mounds built from adobe, many of which District Pacanga of Chepen Chepen are more than 9 meters high. A number of tombs have been discovered at a depth of more than four meters. The most prominent belongs to the "Priestess of San Building with 11. San José de Moro Jose de Moro." Scientists have identified three styles of 137 kilometers interpretation hall Locality or 2 hours from Moche burial here: "boot" tombs, chamber tombs, and from Trujillo to Reference Trujillo to Chepen well-style tombs. Archaeological excavation has turned Chepen up some of the most intricately painted Moche pottery in the Trujillo region. Cajamarca Province Cajamarca Distance Time Cumbemayo offers a site of singular beauty that reveals a 20 kilometers from mixture of human ingenuity and the power of water to 45 minutes from District Cajamarca the city of change the landscape. The complex is composed of Cajamarca Cajamarca three important archaeological groups: the Aqueduct, the Sanctuary and the Caves and Shelters. The aqueduct is an ingenious work of hydraulic engineering that belongs to the initial period of the Cajamarca culture (1000BC). Adults S/.4.50, The five kilometer long canal takes water from the Atlantic 1. Cumbemayo Children and Monday to Sunday Interpretation hall, watershed and redirects it to the Pacific side of the Archaeological Complex On the slopes of A path winds 15 students 9:00 - 17:00 bathrooms continental divide. The Sanctuary is a rocky structure with Locality or Cumbe Peak (3400 kilometers across 4 hours on foot to S/.2.00 the appearance of a gigantic human head. It features Reference meters above sea complex in a cross the complex engravings similar to those found on the aqueduct, and level) horseshoe shape similar carvings can be found in the caves and stone monoliths that litter the valley.

Province San Pablo Distance Time A ceremonial center that corresponds with the Initial and Early Horizon periods, Kuntur Wasi dates from about 93 kilometers from 3 hours from 1100 BC. The complex rises from platforms and plazas, District San Pablo Cajamarca to the Cajamarca to On site museum, sustained by stone walls of enormous size. The platforms 2. Kuntur Wasi Ceremonial district of Chilete Chilete Free entry bathrooms, guards, contain a series of enclosures. In the year 250 BC the Center signage complex was destroyed, and the settlement area was 25 kilometers from Locality or 1 hour from Chilete then moved to a place named "Cerro Blanco" — the Cerro La Colpa Chilete to the town Reference to San Pablo White Peak, which has numerous structures of similar of San Pablo style. Province Cajamarca Distance Time This small room is believed to be the place where the District Cajamarca Inca Empire's demise began with the capture of the Emperor . Held for ransom by Spanish conquistadors, Atahualpa hoped to obtain his liberty by To enter you promising to fill one room with gold, and two others with 3. Ransom Room (Cuarto del need an Urban 9:00 - 13:00 and 5 minutes from the silver and precious stones high enough to reach his Rescate) Locality or Historical Center of Center Tourist 15:00 - 18:00 main square upstretched arm, hence the name "Ransom Room." The Reference Cajamarca Ticket treasure was delivered, but executed the hostage anyway with a garrot around his throat.

Province Cajamarca Distance Time A monumental structure from the early pre-Hispanic District Cajamarca period, the Layzón temple takes the form of a truncated Cajamarca pyramid with rounded corners and containment walls, as well as tall monoliths with bas-relief carvings cut into the 7 kilometers from rock. The walls of the temple reach heights of more than 4. Layzón Pyramid Free entry Locality or the city of 20 minutes six meters. To the southeast lie a large platform and Reference Cajamarca various enclosures stretching along the hillside. The main structure is built from interlocking stones.

Province Cajamarca Distance Time These tombs have been carved into the rocky and sheer Mount San Cristobal, near the village of Combayo. The 20 kilometers from 1 hour and 30 District Cajamarca niches share characteristics with the Windows of Otuzco Cajamarca minutes closer to town, but are better preserved. They also 5. Necropolis of Combayo Free entry correspond to the same cultural and chronological period, between 300 and 800 AD. Locality or Reference

Province Cajamarca Distance Time Known by archaeologists as the Necropolis of Otuzco, District Cajamarca the "windows" refer to the appearance of the tomb University entrances in a series of horizontal rows. The windows Students and have been hollowed out to form square and rectangular 8 kilometers from Seniors S/.1.50 Monday to Sunday Ticket office and local 6. Windows of Otuzco chambers, carved into a rocky surface of volcanic origin. the city of 10 to 15 minutes Adults S/.3.00 9:00 - 17:00 guides Locality or In the center of the Some evidence suggests the tombs correspond to the Cajamarca School Reference town of Otuzco Cajamarca culture, which had influence in the region Students S/1.50 between 300 AD and 800 AD. Lambayeque Province Lambayeque Distance Time The pyramids of Túcume site is one of the main monumental centers in the Lambayeque region and the 35 kilometers from 30 minutes from District Túcume whole of Peru. The archaeological complex extends over the city of Chiclayo Chiclayo University 220 hectares, and is surrounded by fertile farming land students & and the country houses of Raya and San Antonio. There The town of Túcume Seniors S/.3.00 Monday to Sunday are several other "huacas" or sites of spiritual significance is very involved in the 1. Pyramids of Túcume Adults S/.7.50 and holidays 8:00 - in the surrounding area: Huaca Larga, Las Estacas, La conservation of the Raya, Del Pueblo, Las Balsas, Huaca I, Los Gavilanes y On the way to 1 kilometer from Children & 16:00 Locality or 10 minutes from site Las Grandes, etc. Construction of the pyramids and Sipan, through the the town of Students Reference Túcume S/.1.00 burial sites started in the 7th century. They were forest of Pomac Túcume completed around 700 AD.

Province Lambayeque Distance Time Famous for the discovery 30 years ago of the "Lord of Sipán" tomb, which retained all the treasures of a 35 kilometers from District Saña 45 minutes by car nobleman's burial, hidden from looters and grave Chiclayo robbers. The archaeological complex has been reduced in area by the encroachment of farming in the area over the last few centuries. Even so, the site presents several distinct areas, including monuments, patios, cemeteries, Adults & In the Museum of the domestic areas and fortifications. The area at the center foreigners Royal Tombs of of the complex is also known as Huaca Rajada — "the Monday to Sunday 2. Sipán S/.7.50 Seniors, Sipán, you'll find the split huaca" — due to splits in the superstructure created 9:00 - 17:30 Students & remains of the Lord of by alluvial . The central area is a cluster of Locality or East of Chiclayo 50 minutes by bus Children S/.2.50 Sipán buildings, including the Royal Mausoleum, a rectangular Reference platform 80 meters long by 1.30 meters high. The site has provided archaeologists with important information about the costumes and clothing worn by the Moche people.

Province Ferreñafe Distance Time Comprising 20 mud pyramids distributed in an area of 46km2, Sicán was found inside the grounds of the 42 kilometers from District Pitipo 45 minutes Batán Grande. It takes a range of exotically the city of Chiclayo named buildings: the Botija and Colorada tombs, Engineer's kiln, Loro Tomb, La Merced, El Santillo, the The Museum of Sicán 3. Sicán (Batán Grande) - Bees, the Window, Rodillona, the Look, Cholope, Arena, Free entry is in the town of Pómac and Court, among others. It is believed the complex was Ferreñafe Locality or In the area around a center for the development of the Lambayeque or Reference the forest of Pómac Sicán culture (Sicán meaning "house or temple of the moon" in the Moche language). Lambayeque

Province Chiclayo Distance Time The archaeological complex at Ucupe is a group of District Lagunas dispersed structures, and covers a large area. Many of them contain multicolored murals, featuring depictions of 4. Multicolored Murals of the town of 8 kilometers from humans and animals. Included among the monuments Ucupe Locality or 25 minutes Mocupe, after the the town of Ucupe are: Huaca "the town," "murals," "Moche," "Teodora," Reference turnoff to Zaña "Chaquiras," "Lemon" among others.

Province Lambayeque Distance Time Archaeologists recently found a tomb at this site 12 kilometers from containing the bodies of 11 women who had been District San José 15 minutes Chiclayo sacrificed. The complex consists of a series of truncated pyramids and enclosures covering an area of approximately 20 hectares. The pyramids reach a height of 40 meters, and in one part of the complex great walls 4 meters high enclose patios and other mounds made of adobe, partially covered by sand. Chotuna has a special 5. Huaca Chotuna Free entry significance for the Department of Lambayeque because Locality or it's the site identified with the Legend of Naylamp, the Reference mythic founder of the Moche culture, who is said to have come ashore with his people on a flotilla of rafts. The story goes that when his tomb was defiled it unleashed a curse; 30 days of and flooding that drowned crops and destroyed towns. Arequipa Province Castilla Distance Time A complex of engravings in volcanic rock covering an area of 5km2, on a sloping plane in the Dead Bull ravine 23 kilometers from 30 minutes from District Uraca (), at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea the city of Aplao Aplao level. The carvings include human figures, geometric Adults S/.3:00 1. Petroglyphs of Dead Bull Monday to Sunday Information booth and shapes, and animals including snakes and birds. Students Ravine (Toro Muerto) 6:00 - 18:00 a model of the site Archaeologists believe it was a site for shamanic rituals. S/.0.50 Locality or 8 kilometers from 13 minutes from In the surrounding area you can find caves with similar Reference Uraca-Corire Uraca-Corire engravings on their walls.

Province Arequipa Distance Time The caves feature more than 500 paintings and engravings of local wildlife, including herds of guanaco, a 88 kilometers from relative of the that still lives in Peru's high sierra, the city of but in diminishing numbers. The caves lie at an altitude District Arequipa Arequipa, on the of 4,127 meters above sea level, on the right bank of the 2. Sumbay Caves Free entry highway to Sumbay river. Caylloma

Locality or the slopes of El Reference Misti volcano Province Caravelli Distance Time An archaeological complex constructed from stone, and

Arequipa Chala occupied from the pre-Ceramic period to the Inca and 417 kilometers Late Horizon Period. Port Inca is comprised of various District from Arequipa to 6 hours 30 minutes sections: living areas with rectangular and oval shaped Chala enclosures, dispersed burial sites, and terraces. Due to There's a hostel or inn 3. Ravine of the Cow, or Port its location in a rocky ravine, the terraces were Free entry in the archaeological Inca constructed to restrict the possibility of . Some zone archaeologists and historians believe that one of the Inca Locality or Trails started from here, then entered the territory of Reference Ayacucho before reaching Cusco. San Martín Province Mariscal Carceres Distance Time This citadel is located at 2850 meters above sea level, on the right bank of the Montecristo River, and sits on the flanks of a narrow tableland. Most buildings at Gran 350 kilometers 30 minutes by Pajatén were constructed by the Chachapoyas culture from Trujillo to plane from Trujillo (1200 to 1500 AD) but radiocarbon dating shows the site District Huicungo Chagual, 600 to Chagual, 8 was occupied from 200 BC. Central buildings are kilometers from hours by car from Restricted decorated with slate mosaics featuring human, geometric Lima to Trujillo, Lima to Trujillo access, requires and bird figures. The ruins are extremely fragile and most 1. Citadel of Gran Pajatén permission from are still covered with vegetation, leading the Peruvian INRENA government to restrict visitors to those with a permit from the Institute of Culture. 30 kilometers from 2 hours by car to Chagual to Pataz, Locality or Pataz, 3 days walk 60 kilometers from Reference or by mule to Gran Pataz to Gran Pajatén Pajatén

Province Mariscal Carceres Distance Time The name of these petroglyphs is attributed to the fact 40 kilometers from 3 hours in a boat that in the sector where they're found, there's an District Pachiza Juanjui to from Juanjui to abundance of the birds known as Panguana. The Bagazan Bagazan principal characteristic of the petroglyphs is that they 2. Panguana Petroglyphs Free entry were made at the same time on a rock formation 2 2.5 kilometers meters high. The surface of both rocks is covered with Locality or On the right bank of 1 and a half hours from Bagazan to carvings that form anthropomorphic and abstract figures. Reference the Pachicilla River on foot the Petroglyphs The rock collection lies in the high hilly terrain surrounding a river valley. Province San Martín Distance Time The site is a collection of five stones with carvings in bas- relief. The carvings represent animal figures, plants and La Banda de 5 kilometers from District holes, forming in horizontal rows, together with Shilcayo the city of representations of birds and snakes. Even now it's 3. Polish Petroyglyphs and unknown which era these carvings belong to, but studies San Martín Restricted Bello Horizonte by archaeologist Anselmo Lozano Calderon attribute their Locality or Sector Bello 15 minutes origin to the late pre-Hispanic period. Reference Horizonte

Province San Martín Distance Time The modern-day town of Chazuta is built on top of an archaeological site, where several funeral urns have been 230 kilometers uncovered. The urban excavation occupies the lateral District Chazuta from 8 hours by bus alluvial terrace of the Haulage River, covering an area of to Chazuta approximately 100 hectares. The town's population is 4. Chazuta Archaeological about 5000. Archaeologically, the discovery of funeral Restricted Site urns in Chazuta and its surroundings confirms the In the lower reaches historical and cultural importance of the Central Huallaga of the Huallaga 50 kilometers from region. Locality or River, on the border Tarapoto to 2 hours by car Reference between the high Chazuta and low jungle Apurímac Province Distance Time Considered a religious center for a water cult, the complex covers an area of 60 hectares divided into six 47 kilometers from 1 hour by car from District Curahuasi sectors. Sector 1, the principal monolith, is the main the city of Abancay Abancay draw. The Monolith of Saywite is a roughly circular block 2.5 meters high and 11 meters in circumference that features more than 200 animal figures and geometric shapes carved in high relief. It's believed the collection could be a symbolic depiction of the known universe, Adults S/.11.00 making it an important ecological resource. The second Children & Monday to Sunday 1. Saywite Monolith Community of sector is an area of staircases and fountains. Sector 3 or Students 8:00 - 17:00 Concacha, turn off 47 kilometers from "Rumi Huasi" is an area of minor monoliths and Locality or 1 hour 50 minutes S/.3.00 at Km 49 of the the Abancay- fountains. In the rest of the Sectors you'll find small Reference from the turnoff Abancay-Cusco Cusco turnoff pyramids, more fountains and an area devoted to an highway "Intihuatana," a carved rock formation used to measure astronomical movements, especially of the sun and moon.

Province Andahuaylas Distance Time Belonging to the Huari Culture (600-900 AD), and later occupied by the Inca, the Sondor complex was founded 2 kilometers from District Pacucha 30 minutes walk in the environs of Lake Pacucha at an altitude of 3200 Pacucha Lagoon meters above sea level. The site consists of a range of pyramid shaped mounds, which could have been 2. Sondor Archaeological Monday to Sunday Adults S/.10.00 combined to act as a fort. Rectangular and quadrangular Complex 21 kilometers from 8:00 - 17:00 walls are grouped together and surrounded by terraces Locality or the city of 30 minutes by car that culminate in platforms, presenting expansive views Apurímac Reference Andahuaylas to of the lake. Pacucha Lagoon

Province Andahuaylas Distance Time Curamba consists of various architectural structures in roughly rectangular shapes that jut out of the ground in District Kishuara the middle of the modern town of Ushno. Located in a corner of the main plaza, the site takes the form of a truncated pyramid that has three platforms with special 3. Curamba Archaeological 50 kilometers from Semi-restricted characteristics that indicate a religious enclosure. The Complex Near the Abancay to 1 hour 40 minutes access most notable sight at Curamba is a square monument Locality or communities of Curamba with steps and embankments that must have been a Reference Sotccomayo, sacrificial altar. Under the altar a small cave, or cell, has Chorillos & Pujanja been hollowed out. Huánuco Province Huánuco Distance Time This site belongs to the pre-ceramic or late archaic period (c. 2000–1800BC). The distinctive architecture of this District Huánuco site has come to be defined as part of the Kotosh or Mito Tradition. The complex is comprised of three temples: Adults S/.3.00, Nichitos, Blanco (white) and the most well known, the University Temple of Crossed Hands. The last of these contains five Students & 1. Kotosh or the Temple of the 5 kilometers from Monday to Sunday On site museum, niches, each containing a sculpture of life-sized human Seniors S/.1.50, Crossed Hands the city of 5 minutes by car 8:00 - 17:00 bathrooms and guides hands crossed over each other. The statues are among Locality or School Huánuco the oldest in pre-Columbian America. It's believed the Students Reference gesture is related to an idea of duality present in the S/.1.00 of ancient .

Province Huamalies Distance Time There are more than 80 archaeological sites in the area 5 kilometers from surrounding Tantamayo, with architecture characterized 1 hour on foot from District Tantamayo Tantamayo to the by immense buildings up to 11 meters high, some with 6 Tantamayo complex stories, all made from stone, and surrounded by formidable defensive walls. Some of the most important sites are: Japallán, a collection of pre-Inca buildings 2. Tantamayo Archaeological Semi-restricted standing at an altitude of 4100 meters above sea level; Complex access 158 kilometers Approximately 7 the granaries at Salmin, a grouping of 20 storage barns; Locality or north east of the hours by 4WD from the "skyscrapers" of , some of the tallest buildings Reference city of Huánuco Huánuco grouped together at an altitude of 3800 meters above sea level, and finally, the citadels of Susupillo and Jipango.

Province Yarowilca Distance Time One of the most important sites in the Upper Marañon river valley, Garu was possibly a political and District Chavinillo Adults S/.3.00 administrative center for the Yaros or Yarowilcas people, University who are considered among the most organized and Students & largest cultures in the pre-Inca era. The site includes 3. Garu Archaeological 73 kilometers from Monday to Sunday Ticket office and 2 hours 30 minutes Seniors S/.2.00 houses, administrative buildings, religious sites and Complex the city of 8:00 - 17:00 guides Mount Condor by car School defensive positions. This complex has three main Locality or Huánuco Waganan ("where Students sectors: Huaychan Jucchu Punta, the Gantu Corral, and Reference the Condor cries") S/.1.00 Gayarina Jirca with a collection of niches and small Huánuco columns inside.

Province Dos de Mayo Distance Time Also known as Wanuco Marka or Old Huánuco, this citadel is typical of buildings from the late Horizon or Inca 137 kilometers 6 hours from Adults S/.3.00 Period (1476-1534 AD). Construction started in 1460, District Dos de Mayo from Tantamayo Tantamayo University but work was interrupted in 1539 when the Spanish Students & arrived to found the colonial city of Huánuco. This Inca Monday to Sunday 4. Huanuco Pampa Seniors S/.2.00 city was planned with a strict sense of order and became 8:00 - 17:00 School an administrative center, as well as an important point for 144 kilometers Locality or 5 hours from Students textile production and other industries. The well- east of the city of Reference Huánuco S/.1.00 preserved residence of Inca Wasi lies on the eastern side Huánuco of the city.

Province Lauricocha Distance Time The oldest human remains found in Peru were 110 kilometers discovered in this cave; it’s estimated they were buried in San Miguel de District from the city of 5 hours by car 9525 BC. As a result they serve as vital evidence in Cauri Huánuco determining how Peru was initially populated. In another level in the same cave the remains of rock tools and implements of slightly more recent antiquity were also 5. Cave of Lauricocha Free entry found. Their manufacture demonstrates that the people Locality or Close to the of Lauricocha knew the technical principles of stone-age Reference Lauricocha Lagoon industry. The hunters of Lauricocha lived a nomadic existence, dedicated to hunting in a "chaco" or ring formation to surround their prey. Junín Province Juaja Distance Time This important archaeological center was the capital of the culture. One of the best-preserved sites in the Mantaro Valley, it consists of a series of stone District Tunán-Marca buildings grouped together in circles. "Tunanmarca" is derived from two quechua words: Tunan, meaning high 2 hours by car and and Marca meaning settlement, and is one of the largest Tunán-Marca, 15 1. Tunanmarca 1 hour on foot from Free entry 8:00 - 17:00 Late Intermediate settlements found in Peru. At the end kilometers north , 2 hours of the 1970s a group of archeologists from the University east of Juaja Locality or from Juaja of California, directed by Timothy K Earle, conducted Reference studies to determine its antiquity, placing it between 600 and 500 BC.

Province Huancayo Distance Time This complex was sanctuary that the Huanca people considered to be their place of origin. They came to District Huancán dominate the Middle Horizon period, and the Wari State Adults S/2.00 developed into a political dynasty that covered almost half 2. Sanctuary of or On site museum, 6 kilometers south 15 to 20 minutes Students S/1.00 8:00 - 17:00 the territory of modern Peru. The name Warivilca or Warivilca bathrooms and guides of Huancayo by bus or car Children S/.0.50 "Huarivilca" has two roots in the quechua language: Locality or “huari” meaning old and remote, and “vilca” meaning Junín Reference sanctuary or altar.

Province Tarma Distance Time This elaborate system of agricultural terraces and irrigation channels was built during the Inca period (15th 8 kilometers from District Tarma 15 minutes Century AD) and stands out for its design and the city of Tarma construction techniques. Even after five hundred years it still prevents erosion, conserves the humidity of the soil, 3. Terraces of Tarmatambo Free entry and improves the quality of water through its use of filtration systems. Local farmers use the terraces and Locality or channels to cultivate corn, , , , wheat, Reference peas, broad beans, oats, alfalfa and flowers.